Monday, August 17, 2009

so long, summer

Oh my goodness, my house is so quiet. It's just plain weird. I might as well try to squeeze in a little post here while I can. We have recovered from our short jaunt into rural Nebraska. We logged many many miles that looked a lot like this: Some of us got more into it than others.

We had a lot of fun and it was good for us to get away from home and our routine for a little while. Adios Summer Vacation....

Hello first grade!

We always take a photo on the front porch on the first day of school. I usually like the goofy shots better than the posed photos. I feel about 1,000 times better about the school year this time than I did last year when Peter started kindergarten. Last year he just seemed so small in a public school that is so big and this year I think we both feel so much more comfortable. Still, I can't wait to pick him up and see how the day went.

In embroidery news, I was lucky enough to be asked to design and stitch a custom embroidered piece for a wedding so I worked on that a lot this past weekend. I just loved making it and it is so sweet and pretty I can hardly stand to send it away. But since it does have the bride and groom's names on it I expect it wouldn't work in my house all that well. :)

One of the many great things about embroidery is that you can do it while watching tv. Otherwise I just don't know if I could have finished this because "Flight of the ConchordsSeason 2" on DVD arrived from Netflix this week and I really needed so spend some quality time with Bret and Jemaine. I still have a few episodes to watch while I start stitching Christmas ornaments! I am so excited about working on them. I have been sketching out ideas for a few weeks and am itching to get out my needle and go with it. I need to do some tweaking here and there first though. I hope I'll be sharing those here very soon!

Of course I have plenty of other things on my "to-do" list now that I have a little more quiet time each afternoon:

* Plan 6th birthday party for Peter (oh yeah, and BTW it's this weekend - yikes!)* Backup my files and delete the megabytes of junk that are clogging up our computer - I hate that job.

* sit myself down and do some research into the healthcare proposals in the House and Senate. This has been nagging at me for quite some time. I really need to get educated about this issue!

* Figure out what I'm going to wear to my sister's wedding in September. One of my sisters is already sewing her dress for the wedding. I'm jealous! I won't be sewing my dress of course but I would love to find an adorable little vintage number on Etsy.

The biggest thing on my fall to-do list is to finish painting our kitchen cabinets, and then paint the walls & ceilings in our dining room and living room (and then paint over the paneling in our hall, and then paint our bathroom -- this portion of my to-do list will obviously carry over into 2010!!).